Russia won’t congratulate CIA on its diamond jubilee

Thursday 15 September 2022 — Indian Punchline

by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR

A US Senate commission in 1975 counted eight assassination attempts by CIA agents on Fidel Castro during 1960-1965

In the Russian journal Natsionalnaya Oborona (National Defence), the chief of Russia’s foreign intelligence Sergey Naryshkin has written a riveting essay on the 75th anniversary of the Central Intelligence Agency, which falls on Sunday. It is an unusual gesture, especially in the middle of the hybrid war in Ukraine.

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Ukraine SitRep – Hit On Dam Endangers Ukrainian Troops – Russians Defeat More Counterattacks

Thursday, 15 September, 2022 — Moon of Alabama

The BBC continues to misinterpret war news from Ukraine:

Ukraine war: Houses flooded after missiles hit major dam

Russian missiles have hit a reservoir dam near the southern Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, officials say.

Residents in some areas were told to evacuate, city head Oleksandr Vilkul said, but he added the situation was under control.

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Ukraine News Links 14-15 September 2022

Thursday, 15 September 2022 — The New Dark Age

There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back. If it gets updated, I usually insert the time on the line above. A lot of cross-posting usually indicates that the article is popular and some links may not work, depending on your location but at least you have some idea of the scale of censorship now operating in the ‘democratic’ West.

Colonel Larry Wilkerson Interview
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/09/colonel-larry-wilkerson-interview/

Biden’s Battle for the Soul of the Nation
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/09/bidens-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-nation/

How To Be Written Off…
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/09/how-to-be-written-off.html

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How The US & UK Stopped Peace Deal In Ukraine

Thursday, 15 September 2022 — MintPress News

Lee Camp proves that NATO and the U.S. want their proxy war in Ukraine to be fought to the last Ukrainian. A new report shows that Russia and Ukraine had negotiated a peace deal in April.However, as Camp explains, NATO wasn’t ready for peace so they intervened to stop it. Now, after months of grueling conflict, Ukrainian forces have suffered catastrophic losses and their friends in NATO are pushing them to face worse.

Eyewitness: Human Toll of Eight-Year Ukrainian Army Onslaught in Eastern Ukraine is Shocking

Thursday, 15 September 2022 — CovertAction Magazine

By John Parker

John Parker walking through a Ukrainian bunker west of Sokilnyky. [Source: Photo courtesy of John Parker]

The eastern Ukrainian countryside is being littered with Ukrainian Army mines while some towns have been abandoned as residents had to escape Ukrainian Army shelling.

Residents consider Americans who send money to the Ukrainian government in the belief that they are protecting them from the Russians to be “idiotic” and “foolish.”

The third part of an eyewitness report. (See Part 1; and Part II)

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War Is Not the Answer to Deep Planetary Insecurity: The Thirty-Seventh Newsletter (2022)

Thursday, 15 September 2022 — The Tricontinental

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian Iran Sunrise Sunrise 2018 768x621Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (Iran), Sunset, 2015.

Dear friends,

Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research

Grave news comes to us from the United Nations (UN). The latest Human Development Report (2021–22) records that for the first time in thirty-two years, the Human Development Index has registered a second consecutive year of decline. The previous five years of gains in areas such as health and education have been negated by this reversal. ‘Billions of people face the greatest cost-of-living crisis in a generation’, says the report. ‘Billions already grapple with food insecurity, owing largely to inequalities in wealth and power that determine entitlements to food. A global food crisis will hit them hardest’.

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South Africa: Civil Society, Human Rights Organizations Call for Urgent Intervention to Protect Abahlali baseMjondolo

Wednesday, 14 September 2022 — Internationalist 360°


PRESS STATEMENT
14 SEPTEMBER 2022

CIVIL SOCIETY CALLS FOR URGENT NATIONAL INTERVENTION TO PROTECT ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO

On Friday, 9 September 2022, the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) sent a letter concerning the ongoing attacks on Abahlali baseMjondolo to various members of the South African executive and legislature, as well as commissioners of regional and international human rights organisations. The letter received the endorsement of over 140 civil society organisations and individuals and called for urgent intervention to protect these activists from further harm.

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Ukraine: The CIA’s 75-year-old Proxy

Monday, 12 September, 2022 — CovertAction Magazine

By Gerald Sussman

Friedrichstrasse, bisected by the Berlin Wall, in 1961. Operation Red Sox dropped 85 CIA agents into Soviet-controlled territory to gather intelligence about Moscow’s plans. [Source: politico.com]

Joe Biden “is fueling the fire in the Ukraine.”

— Roger Waters of Pink Floyd

It takes a musical artist to cut through the morass of propaganda to educate American mainstream media (MSM) about the Russia-Ukraine crisis and the roleof the United States in instigating that conflict for its own nefarious ends.

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The Road to Fascism: How the War in Ukraine is Changing Europe

Saturday, 10 September 2022 — Palestine Chronicle


European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. (Photo: Dati Bendo, via Wikimedia Commons)

By Ramzy Baroud

As soon as I landed in Rome, I discovered that I was no longer able to access any Russian media whatsoever. Unfortunately, threats by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, that Europe should sever all links with “Russia’s propaganda machine” were taken seriously by the Italian government.

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